Yes, yes, we are supposed to respect political differences and respect people that have other policy ideas because that’s what makes our democracy so strong and great.
But sometimes I really gotta question that, especially after reading about Frank Antenori’s new proposal to make recipients of state aid sign pledges that they won’t drink alcohol, smoke [...]
I’m glad to hear that Jack Harper’s bill to eliminate the current merit selection system for judges is in a bit of trouble. Harper’s argument is that (and you’ve heard this before elsewhere) we have a runaway liberal judiciary in Arizona. I’m not sure what evidence he presents for this other than it is the [...]
I have no earthly idea if the sales tax will pass the House. I doubt there are votes in the Republican caucus to pass it, and Democratic leadership is less than enthusiastic about the bill.
I’ve gotten some feedback from R Cubed fans asking why Democrats in the Senate voted for the bill. Word from folks [...]
VoteVets.org PAC, an organization representing Iraq and Afghanistan vets, has given its endorsement to Marine Corps veteran Ruben Gallego, who is running for the State House in Phoenix. He is only one of three state-level candidates to get their endorsement this year. Press release after the jump.
I’ve been watching with great interest the show that Frank Antenori has been putting on in an effort to get the appointment when Jonathan Paton resigns his senate seat. Here is Antenori, quoted in several sources:
I think the Board of Supervisors would much rather have a guy in the Senate that has been working with [...]
Below is the latest Farley Report. I need to give Steve Farley and Tom Chabin their props for their opposition to Kirk Adams’s latest bill.
Adams’s bill is called “Arizona’s Job Recovery Act,” but as you’ll see in Farley’s report, it is yet another excuse to cut taxes on the wealthy and big business. In a [...]
I was happy to hear that Andy Tobin is withdrawing his Payday Loans bill, citing a lack of support among his Republican colleagues (support from Democrats was negligible at best). Whether this was due to his party cohorts having moral qualms about the legislation or that they were being hammered by public pressure on a [...]
While we were at the gathering of Democrats at the Wyndham Hotel up in Phoenix, one of my Blackberry-enabled fellow travellers read a Twitter post from a reporter at the Republican confab. Kirk Adams was blaming “Sinema Democrats” for the problems with the budget.
Yep. To believe this one, you’ll have to set aside actual facts, [...]
A bit funny the temporal proximity of the Supreme Court’s ruling on corporate money and our own state’s ruling on Clean Elections, ennit?
I had a conversation with a Republican legislator a while back about Clean Elections. In addition to the standard issue conservative arguments against the system, he also brought up the trope that has [...]
Frank Antenori, as quoted by Jim Nintzel in Tucson Weekly’s Range blog:
I think the Board of Supervisors would much rather have a guy in the Senate that has been working with them than a guy who is working against them. I think they’d rather have a happy Frank Antenori rather than an angry Frank Antenori. [...]
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